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Lion: 1
Gorilla: 1
Reptiles (crocodiles/lizards): 2
Wolf: 6
Falcon: 8
Tool: 1
Dragon: 2
Frog: 1
Mouse/rat: 1
Eagle: 1
Spider: 2
Oozaru: 1
Squirrel: 1
Rabbit: 1
Praying Mantis: 1
Komodo dragon: 1
"Speaking"
"Thinking"
"Summons/ bijuu speaking"
"Summons/ bijuu thinking"
"Fire release: Great fireball technique"
Silence… Silence permitted through the air as the odd nineteen groups of shinobi's each stood there beneath the shadows of the night as they glanced towards each other and their examiner, who, had taken his time by conversing slightly with the surrounding jonin as they awaited for the first exam to be officially over.
Glancing around, Naruto couldn't help but shake his head slightly in paranoia as he mentally counted down all the teams that appeared.
First there was team 7, consisting of Kasumi Uzumaki Namikaze, Mito Uzumaki Namikaze and finally Sasuke Uchiha. Younger brother of Itachi Uchiha, their chunin exam examiner and finally their jonin-sensei, Kakashi Hatake.
Next up was team 8, Consisting of Hinata Hyuga, Kiba, the mutt, Inuzuka and Shino Aburame with their jonin-sensei being Kurenai Yuhi, the team that happened to cause him to learn about his regeneration/healing factor after their combined mission where he lost his arm.
Funny enough, it seemed that all the rookies, and a year old team he had seen before passed as the next team he saw was non-other than team 10 which consisted of Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi and Ino Yamanaka with their jonin-sensei being the son of the third hokage Asuma Sarutobi.
"Yosh! Team 9's youth burns the brightest!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"HELL NO!"
Thud.
Thud.
…..
…..
Coughing into his hand at the rather weird interruption, Naruto glanced towards the two conscious members of team 10 before squinting his eyes a little in an attempt to remember the names of the two shinobi.
It wasn't long before Naruto remembered the two being Neji Hyuga and Tenten, who he knew didn't have a last name… So far, no one had actually ever heard it so he didn't know if Tenten knew or if she simply didn't tell anyone her last name.
Trailing his eyes down towards the ground where two green clad shinobi laid, Naruto couldn't help but groan slightly as he ticked off Rock Lee and Might Guy from team 9's list.
And… That was actually all he knew from all the teams there, aside from the blond haired chick, whose name was Temari, from the sand team with the creepy red-head, Naruto hadn't known anyone else.
Hell, he didn't even know the name of the white haired dude who had those "ninja info cards."
He was sure that the dude gave out his name while he was not paying attention towards him.
Although he did count down the fact that there was 6 Konoha teams, including his own, 3 Iwa teams, 3 Kumo teams, 2 Mizu teams, 1 Taki team, 1 Oto team, 1 Suna team, the one with Temari on it, and finally another team from Ame.
Overall… It was a pretty diverse group of shinobi from different Hidden villages and locations.
Glancing down at his fist, Naruto gained a small smile as he saw his hand slightly shivering slightly… And he knew that it wasn't from fear or anxiousness… But excitement.
He couldn't wait to battle against the other shinobi in the area. He was excited to battle against them.
"Oi! Yondaime wannabe! You scared over there?! I see your hand shaking! You must be incredibly weak to be so scared of a few other ACTUAL shinobi's around you! But it is fair that you are scared from us Iwa teams. I mean, we are the strongest team of genin within our village. We even have the Sandaime-sama's granddaughter on our- where did she go?" Came a voice towards his left.
Turning his head slightly, Naruto caught sight of what appeared to be two Iwa genin moving towards him before looking at each other in confusion as they looked for their teammate, who was apparently the granddaughter of the legendary fence sitter Onoki of both scales who is currently the single user of the destructive dust release, which could decimate all his opponents to the atomic level.
And considering the old man was well on down the elder scale means that he has had a lot of time to practices and strengthen his dust release… Scare stuff right there huh?
Blinking back into focus, Naruto watched as the two Iwa genin stare at him for a moment before giving him a sneer and walking off to find their teammate.
Well… Wasn't that anti-climactic.
Chuckling himself, Naruto turned around, only to find that Kiba was making a straight trek towards him with his ninken following closely behind.
"…. For… Fuck… Sake…." Was the only thing Naruto could mutter internally before simply grabbing Kiba by the jacket and throwing him over behind his shoulder without a second thought as he walked away from his original position.
Had he looked back, he might have sweet dropped as he hadn't realised that he had been standing right near the edge of the hokage monument before throwing Kiba right of the monument and onto the head of the third hokage.
"BWAWHAHAWHAWHAHWA!"
Blinking slightly, Naruto turned his attention towards the laughter before catching sight of Anko pointing towards him and laughing her head off along with a very fear stricken Kurenai as she ran right past him.
Deciding to see what exactly was happening, Naruto did indeed sweat drop as he looked towards the edge of the cliff he was previously standing… when he had thrown Kiba over his shoulder once he was facing towards where the rest of the genin and jonin were…
Ohhh…. Shit….
Coughing into his hand, Naruto made his way into the group of genin before noticing a small giggle coming from his right.
Turning his head once more, Naruto caught the sight of Hinata giggling slightly as she looked at him with a slight shine within her pale lavender eyes.
Giving her a small cheeky eye smile grin, Naruto continued his walk, before felling a burning feeling towards his chest.
And, almost as if he was on autopilot, Naruto began to walk towards the forest that was only a few feet away from the meeting place Itachi had set up.
Just as Naruto reached the forest, the sound of Itachi's voice rang throughout the perimeter, which had then broken him from his slight stupor, causing him to return his attention back to the examiner.
Giving a blank stare towards the genin, Itachi couldn't help but send his little brother a small smile of approval before retaining his blank faced visage.
"The first part of the chunin exams is officially completed. Originally the second stage was supposed to be hosted within the forest of death, however, it has been decided that in a week there will be a preliminary round where each team will battle another team until only nine teams remain. After that, the remaining teams will then battle one another in one on one fights. You each have a two and a half weeks to practice and train before the second exam takes place in the konoha arena that had been created for the chunin exams. Note that the kage's or leaders of your villages will appear to watch this closed exam before appearing once more for the finale of the chunin exams along with the daimyo's and civilians. Understood?" Asked Itachi as he sent his gaze around to all the genin, including Naruto who had returned from the edge of the forest.
All giving a nod, the genin and their jonin slowly began to disappear.
Giving Itachi a hard look, Naruto turned his attention towards where he last saw both Satsuki and Sasame before gaining a small twitch of his eye as he caught sight of a standing cut out of his two team mates and Anko with a small note attached to it.
Walking up to the note and reading it, Naruto couldn't help but let out a small grin.
"Hey Naruto! I'm taking both Satsuki-chan and Sasame-chan to train for the next phase of the exams. No hard feelings- Anko"
Originally, Naruto had actually thought that Anko would have been the one to train him along with his team, however, now that she was busy….
Naruto couldn't help but imagine the texture of his jonin level clearance card.
Salivating at the thought of being able to train for the next two and a half weeks without any stop, Naruto couldn't help but grin before disappearing within a shunshin as he attempted to get ready for his next exam.
"What a naughty boy… Ignoring me in favour of his pitiful exams… And here I was waiting to test out my newest path…" Came a voice from within the forest once everyone had left the perimeter.
Walking out of the forest and onto the edge of the hokage monument, two purple ringed eyes glanced down toward the village before giving a small grin before a giggle erupted from the woman with two white horns sticking out from the top of her head.
Sending her eyes towards a specific building across the village, where Naruto happened to have landed from his shunshin, Kagumi couldn't help but cover her mouth with a single hand, stopping her giggle from reaching a higher volume as she watched Naruto retreat to his home before disappearing.
Stripping himself off his cloths, Naruto caught sight of another note from Anko, which had simply stated that Satsuki and Sasame were going to stay with her for the two weeks, before dropping down onto his couch with nothing but his black boxers on.
Gaining a small smile on his face, Naruto shut his eyes before falling partly asleep… Where Kagumi then appeared with a small grin on her face as she leaned down into his ear.
"Sleep well Naruto-chan… I will see you soon… Your hunter wants to play." Muttered the woman in a soft whisper as she gave a small kiss to Naruto's cheek, which incidentally left a small red lipstick stain on his cheek before she disappeared once more, her chuckle causing Naruto to squirm slightly before falling back to sleep.
(The next day)
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Screamed Naruto as he stared at himself from his mirror with a shocked expression on his face as his hand trailed the side of his cheek which now had a somewhat smeared red lipstick stain.
It hadn't been even twenty minutes after Naruto had awoke that he noticed the red lipstick that was on the side of his cheek after he had went to get a glass of water, with his reflection catching the sight of his cheek being covered slightly with a single pair of red lip marks on his face, before a rather shocking conclusion had appeared within his head.
Kagumi Otsutsuki… The lady who was that of a chibi kami, if Naruto would say from her abilities, appeared within his house while he was asleep… And totally vulnerable to whatever she could have done.
That did not bode well for him. The mere fact that his supposed "hunter" had appeared without him noticing had startled the black haired shinobi.
She could have easily killed him last night.
And nobody would notice his death until Satsuki or Sasame returned from Anko's home.
Staring at the mirror, Naruto couldn't help but narrow his eyes at the smeared lipstick that was on his face before gaining a determined glint within his eyes.
It seems that Kagumi was serious about hunting him after all…
Forget the chunin exams… He has to be able to match her or better yet defeat/detain or even kill her… Something that wouldn't be an easy task.
Looking deeply into the mirror, Naruto could have sworn that for a moment a fire began to rage within his eyes before disappearing back into their crimson colour.
Gaining a small smile, Naruto couldn't help but look at himself in silence.
"The will of fire huh? Seems that it isn't just inspiring words." Muttered Naruto as he coated his hand with a small bit of water chakra before wiping away the lipstick marks off his face entirely.
Giving himself a small but determined grin, Naruto turned his head away from his mirror before walking back out into the living room before picking up his cloths and walking towards the laundry room where he then dropped his usual garb.
Walking towards his room, along with Satsuki's… And Sasame's… Naruto opened the door before heading towards the corner of the room where his cloths were usually stored in a somewhat large closet, which had bought when he had officially bought the house, before moving his hand forward opening it up.
Looking down towards the somewhat large supply of cloths, which had been slightly messy, Naruto slipped himself into a single black high collar shirt, similar to the one he saw Sasuke wearing during the chunin exams. However, unlike his usually colour scheme the black collared shirt had three horizontal orange lines going from the sleeves up towards his shoulders before returning to the main black colour of the shirt. Along with this, he grabbed a pair of long black baggy pants with which he then wrapped white medical tape around his ankles like how most other shinobi's do before lifting his hand up towards his forehead where he had his black coloured headband sitting comfortably on top of his forehead with bits of his hair shadowing the top of the headband like how the fourth's hair did.
Looking towards his right, Naruto saw a somewhat large scroll besides his closet before leaning down and opening it up and using his chakra to seal all of his cloths within his closet into the scroll before walking out of the only bedroom within his apartment and back into the living room where he then unsealed a lose floorboard that had been covered up by the couch before pulling out another somewhat large scroll.
What was in the scroll exactly? Well… It was Naruto's rations that were placed all over his apartment for short notice.
In each one of the secret scrolls was over 200 food, chakra and blood pills along with a fully stocked sealed water bottles ranging at around the thousands, how he had gained enough currency for a thousand bottles nobody would know, along with a group of medical boxes filled with anti-bodies for pretty much anything along with medical equipment like Band-Aids and medical wraps like the ones that hold his pants at his ankles. It also had a few other things such as spare blankets and sleeping equipment along with dozens frozen foods for when the user simply felt that he wanted to have actual food rather than just cardboard tasting pills that only gave the body the nutrients it needed to continue living.
Overall there were five of these scrolls in total in his apartment, each hidden from view and in places most wouldn't notice them.
It also helped that the ink he used was the very expensive "invisible" ink that had pretty much cost him an entire C-rank missions pay to purchase a single small tub of ink.
Funny enough, the ink is also see through so unless you were a fuinjutsu user who had memorised how to write down a seal exactly, then you pretty much couldn't use the ink without the chance of you dying from your seal being written down wrong.
Lucky for him, he practiced a lot with clones.
Grinning slightly as he sealed the other scroll within his clothing scroll, Naruto walked towards the front of his apartment before opening the door with a grin.
Exiting outside, Naruto firmly closed and locked the door before turning his attention towards a certain location he had found as a kid when he was within the academy before disappearing within a plump of smoke, only reappearing in front of the shinobi library with a grin.
He knew where he was going, so he might as well stock up on his needed material.
Walking past the jonin guards, while flashing his jonin level clearance, Naruto summoned a small group of kage bunshin mid stride before continuing on his way, his clones already knowing what they needed for when they dashed off.
It wasn't twenty minutes later did Naruto glance down towards his small collection worth of books ranging from training books to that of jutsu's and affinity training… For all elements…
If he was going to ever defeat Kagumi, he would have to go all out. His last fight still rang through his head clearly, even if he probably had a concussion during his beating.
Grinning as he grabbed his scrolls, Naruto walked all the way to the front of the library before placing his collection being around 50-70 different scrolls before placing them on the "to buy" section of the front desk where the head librarian sat.
It seemed that his large amounts of scrolls both surprised and made her suspicious of him as she used a special jutsu that allowed the user to copy and paste all the written text onto another scroll or book.
It was a very useful jutsu that most ninja's who work regularly in espionage usually learned for its practical use.
Eventually the librarian was finished and handed him another single scroll, which held all his purchased scrolls, before holding her hand out.
Grabbing onto the scroll and then sealing it into his hand, which he would then later on seal into his larger scroll that was sealed at the back of his waist, Naruto then pulled out a large check that would pay for all his scrolls since he knew what he wanted beforehand and knew exactly what it would cost him.
But hey, the money from a lot of his missions along with the daimyo's "little" tip, Naruto was able to easily pay for his scrolls even after he bought his apartment completely.
Hell, the scrolls, since there wasn't a lot of jutsu's in them, wasn't going to put a massive dent into his bank account.
Sure it was somewhat noticeable, but not really much of a drama.
Giving the librarian a nod, Naruto walked outside before disappearing within a shunshin once more, before reappearing at a weapons shop which Naruto then bought a lot of weapons ranging from a single bokken and katana, a staff, ninja wires for his wrist launchers and a hunting bow with a lot of arrows along with an arrow creation book with materials for arrows.
With another check placed down on the stores desk, Naruto disappeared within another burst of smoke before appearing somewhere near the outer-rim of the village before giving a massive grin when he looked down from where he was standing towards a large mountain which seemed to have an entrance towards a mechanical training ground.
Funny enough… This used to be the hokage's personal training field before it began to rust and age badly, which was the reason for the fourth hokage hiring ninja's to create another replica of this one closer towards the village.
Which in turn… Left it all for himself to use…
Good think he was a mechanical genius and knew how to fix this place up once he had camped here for over two weeks before hand.
Giving a small grin once more, Naruto raised his hands up into a cross sign.
"Kage bunshin!" Shouted Naruto as twenty or so clones seemed to appear, suprising Naruto slightly before he gained another grin.
"Let's get this show on the road!" Shouted Naruto, his clones giving nods of agreement before dashing off to help repair the old training ground.
Tilting his head up slightly, Naruto gave a small narrowed stare towards the sky before a grin broke through his face.
"Don't worry Kagumi… This prey will make your life a living hell."
And done. If you would like to imagine how Naruto's training ground looks like, it's the training ground from road to ninja that Naruto battled Menma at.
Either way, remember to leave a review of what summoning animal you all want and what you think of the story so far. Hope you enjoyed it and I will see you all later.